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BIOLOGY

WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 17, 2014
Feuding sexologists thrash it out over vaginal orgasms, female penises
Hapless lovers are not the only ones who get lost down there: Even sexologists cannot agree on what is what, and where, among women's female parts, according to a father-daughter team of researchers in Italy, Drs. Vincenzo and Giulia Puppo.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2014
Study on genetics of height provides long-sought answers
It's no secret that if your dad is tall and your mother is tall, you are probably going to be tall. But fully understanding the genetics of height has been a big order for scientists.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 28, 2014
Animal studies bring hope for fixing traumatic memories
The frailty of memory might have an upside: When a memory is recalled, two research teams reported Wednesday, it can be erased or rewired so that a painful recollection is physically linked in the brain to joy.
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 6, 2014
'Dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico is the size of Connecticut: scientists
Scientists say a man-made "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is as big as the state of Connecticut.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 17, 2014
Mutant worms may hold key to drugs blocking the effects of alcohol
Mutant worms may show a way to prevent people from becoming intoxicated from alcohol, a study released on Wednesday said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 12, 2014
'Bone-house wasp' builds nest with ant corpses
Here's some useful advice for the world's ants: Whatever you do, stay away from the "bone-house wasp."
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 12, 2014
In the brain, sex addiction looks the same as drug addiction
Pornography triggers brain activity in sex addicts similar to the effects that drugs have on the brains of drug addicts, researchers said on Friday — but that doesn't necessarily mean porn is addictive.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2014
Spiders across the world have a taste for fish, scientists say
English poet Mary Howitt's "The Spider and the Fly" doesn't tell the half of it: Spiders of course are happy to devour flies, but their appetites go beyond mere insects.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 18, 2014
Chinese military relaxes rules to allow shorter, 'more portly' soldiers
China's military has relaxed its height, eyesight and weight requirements for soldiers in an effort to attract more educated personnel, the state-owned China Daily newspaper said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2014
Severe penalties sought for Riken, Obokata over STAP scandal
A third-party reform panel set up by the government-backed Riken institute has called for severe penalties for stem cell researcher Haruko Obokata and her supervisors, and for the biology center where she works to be disbanded.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 13, 2014
Were dinosaurs cold-blooded killers? Perhaps not
The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded, like reptiles, fish and amphibians, finally has a good answer.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 12, 2014
Tiny ancient fish unlocks secrets of Earth's early vertebrates
This is certainly not just another fish tale. A tiny jawless fish that lived more than a half-billion years ago is providing scientists with a treasure-trove of information about the very dawn of vertebrate life on Earth.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2014
Knuckle sandwich: Did fistfights drive evolution of human face?
Current theory about the shape of the human face just got a big punch in the mouth.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 28, 2014
Gay dads' brain activity resembles both mothers and fathers: study
Having a baby alters new mothers' brain activity, researchers have found, and a new study adds the first evidence of such changes in the brains of gay men raising children they adopted through surrogacy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 23, 2014
Superbug threat requires urgent world action: scientists
Superbugs resistant to drugs pose a serious worldwide threat and demand a response on the same scale as efforts to combat climate change, specialists on infectious diseases said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
May 23, 2014
Is Mideast xenophobia stalling cure for MERS virus?
In a north London laboratory one Saturday in September 2012, an email arrived from a team of virologists in the Netherlands that spooked even some of the world's most seasoned virus handlers.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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